Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

From:
"M9." <monkey9@xxxxxx>

Date:
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:33:51 +0200

Message-id:
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M9. schreef:
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> Alberto Passalacqua schreef:
>> Il giorno ven, 20/04/2007 alle 14.42 +0200, Henne Vogelsang ha scritto:
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>>> The user specifically requested newer unsupported packages by adding
>> the
>>> 3rd party repo. Why would the package manager hold back those packages
>>> and install them only on request?
>> In general, users add packman and other repositories to enable features
>> not available in the default packages provided by SUSE. This doesn't
>> mean that all more recent packages from packman have to be installed to
>> replace the default ones. The decision should be left to the user and
>> not by the package manager, because upgrading all default packages with
>> 3rd party ones automatically might bring to a messed up system.
>
>
> I am carefull now with other pkgs except the ones I realy need: Samba,(a
> story on its own..) libxine, w32codec-all..